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Yours, Mine and Ours: What You Need to Know About IP
When it comes to safeguarding your company's intellectual property, what you don't know can hurt you. To ease the potential pain, GC South asked several Atlanta-area attorneys to talk about what every in-house counsel needs to know about IP. The panel's wide-ranging and lively discussion covered cybersquatting, assignment of rights -- and one IP lawyer's adaptation of comedian Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" monologue as a means to help identify patent trolls.N.Y. Judge Rebuffs Request for Shareholder Records in Airline Takeover Bid
An attempt by AirTran to use a provision of New York law to force an airline it is trying to buy to produce its shareholder records has been rebuffed by New York Supreme Court Justice Helen E. Freedman. AirTran argued that Wisconsin-based Midwest Air Group was directly doing business in New York through its subsidiary Midwest Airlines, and therefore the state's Business Corporation Law should apply. Freedman rejected this argument, holding that Midwest does not conduct business in New York under �1315.Yours, Mine and Ours: What You Need to Know About IP
When it comes to safeguarding your company's intellectual property, what you don't know can hurt you. To ease the potential pain, GC South asked several Atlanta-area attorneys to talk about what every in-house counsel needs to know about IP. The panel's wide-ranging and lively discussion covered cybersquatting, assignment of rights -- and one IP lawyer's adaptation of comedian Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" monologue as a means to help identify patent trolls.Company Entitled to Shareholder List in Hostile Takeover Attempt
Since a Wisconsin airline is "directly doing business" in New York, it was obliged to give a copy of its shareholder list to a competitor that had purchased its stock to facilitate a hostile takeover, a Manhattan appeals court has ruled. In the case, AirTran registered a subsidiary in New York that bought 100 shares of the target company, Midwest Air Group, and then took advantage of state law allowing stockholders to obtain a shareholder list. Last month, Midwest agreed to be acquired by another party.LeClairRyan Boosts New York Office With Eight From Epstein Becker
Leading the team headed for LeClairRyan is Adrian Zuckerman, cochair of New York-based Epstein Becker's corporate services practice. Zuckerman will cohead the real estate industry group at LeClairRyan.Coke Controls the Message With Report of Secrets Theft
By making an employee's alleged theft of its trade secrets public, The Coca-Cola Co. accomplished three things, experts say. It managed to control the message about the incident, it demonstrated its commitment to prosecute such thefts, and it raised a red flag about the risks all companies face in protecting their most valuable possession -- their intellectual property. In a memo to Coke employees, CEO Neville Isdell said he has ordered a thorough review of the company's information protection practices.The Real World According to Summer Associates
Summer associates come off as a tough crew in The American Lawyer's survey of almost 6,800 interns at about 200 firms, welcoming brutal honesty about their own performances and leaving none of the firms immune from suggestions for improvement. But overall, law students gave their summer employers lots of praise. While the survey's upper tiers included many familiar names, plenty of newcomers hit high notes -- and two of the top 10 slots were captured by firms that vaulted more than 100 spots.Trending Stories
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